Emphasize that the discussion of risk needs to be accompanied by discussion of medical benefit
Express concern about the reporting of predicted cancers as though they are fact and, in particular, to express concern that some patients are not receiving appropriate medical care because of their fears of radiation exaggerated by speculative reports.
“The Role of the Medical Physicist in Managing Radiation Dose and Communicating Risk in CT,” available on the AJR website at www.ajronline.org.
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1. American Association of Physicists in Medicine website. AAPM position statement on radiation risks from medical imaging procedures: policy no. PP 25-A. http://www.aapm.org/org/policies/details.asp?id=318&type=PP Published 2011. Accessed August 21, 2015
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